Confection package



Oct. 12, 1948. J. BURSTINER 2,451,318

CONFECTION PACKAGE 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. 51, 1945 INVENTOR. JACK BURST/NEE.

ATTOQN E K J. BURSTINER GONFECTION PACKAGE Oct. 12, 1948 Filed Jan. 51,- 1945 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 .0 0 a \v v 'INVENTOR. .Mc/r BURST/NEE.

A TTOENE Y Oct. 12, 1948. I BURSTINER 2,451,318

CONFECTION PACKAGE Filed Jan. 31, 1945 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 CHERRY' CREAM I NUT a g INVENTOR. 62 J/lC/f B URS T/NER.

6 0 ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 12, 1948 unites stares 3 Claims.

described and claimed in my co-pending application Ser. No. 596,953, filed May 31, 1945.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel, practical, efiicient, and economical package containingconfections, such as, candies or bon-bons.

According to the conventional handling and packing of candies and other bon-bons in boxes, the candies are first hand dipped, placed on trays, and the trays carrying the candies run through a cooling tunnel; the candies being then manually removed from the trays and bulk packaged. These packages are then reopened, the candies removed and then repacked into the desired consumer or selling boxes, each candy being usually placed in a paper cup, and the individually cupped candies arranged in layers in the box with one or more cardboard partitions between the layers. Furthermore, Waxed paper and cushions or paddin are usually employed to keep the candies dry and to prevent their rattling or leaving the paper cups.

It is an object of thepresent invention to eliminate these paper cups, partitions, cushions and even the box, and to provide a simple means of packing candies and other bon-bons in a sanipractical and eflicient manner.

Heretofore, in packing candies or bonbons in a box, one of the diihculties resulted in that when the box has once been opened and some of the confections removed, the remaining pieces of confection would haphazardly shift about, thus giving the inside of the box a disorderly appearance.

It had also been found'necessary to place such edibles in individual paper cups in order to prevent them from contacting and scraping against each other. These cups not only added to the cost of packaging, but were usually left'empty in the box amongst filled ones, thereby adding to the unsightly appearance of the inside of the box and thus causing difficulty in locating the filled cups.

A further disadvantage of the previously styled packaging resided in the fact that each time it was desired to remove a piece of candy or bonbon, the entire layer of candies in the box had to be exposed.

It is, therefore, another object of the present invention to arrange the candies or bon-bons in spaced relation and also in spaced rows on a flexible base or sheet of suitable material, the ends of said sheet being folded over the intermediate portion of the sheet, and then in this folded condition, spirally winder roll the sheet with the candies encased therein into a package in such a mannerthat the individual rows of candies are spirally arranged in the roll and-are separated, respectively, by portions of the sheet, whereby the candles in each row are maintained individually separated and the rows of candies are covered with portions of the sheet. 7

It is a still further object of the present-invention to provide a sanitary package of confections by arranging the same in covered rows and in such a manner that only the row of confection pieces tobe presently consumed are exposed.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide means for packing or wrapping edibles, such as, candies and other bon-bons, whereby the candies will adhere to or frictionally engage-a properly surfaced paper base or other suitable sheet of material, when they are applied to such paper immediately after being dipped in coating solution.

Another object of the present invention is to provide such base with spaced indentations upon which the confection pieces are placed and/or with indicia or marks for readily identifying the type or kind of confection piece. i

A still further object of the present invention is to provide the base or sheet upon .which the confection pieces are arranged with embossed cup-like indentations for retaining the pieces in spaced relation and/ or with printed identification marks, such as colored spots.

The above and further objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following disclosure thereof together with the attached drawings which illustrate certain forms of embodiment thereof. These forms are shown for the purpose of illustrating the invention and I desire in no way to be limited to the details of such disclosure, for in the further practical application of my invention many changes in the forms and the proportions may be made as circumstances require or experience suggests without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating the placing of freshly dipped candy on a flexible base or sheet;

Fig. 2 is diagrammatic viev. showing cooling means for the freshly dipped candies which have been arranged on the sheet as seen in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3'is a view showing aportion of such sheet with the clipped candy spacedly arranged thereon Fig. 7 illustrates a portion of a flexible base .or I

sheet having imprints thereon for identifying the different types of candy being packed;

Fig. 8 is a portion of a sheet having impressed or embossed areas for receiving the candies;

Fig. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 99 of Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is a view somewhat similar to Fig. 8, parallel score lines being added;

Fig. 11 is a sectional view taken .on line |l-I| of Fig. 10;

Fig. 11a is a sectional view of a modified form of base or sheet;

Fig. 12 is a sectional view taken through a rolled package containing candy and made in accordance with the invention;

Fig, 13 is a plan view of a portion of a base or sheet for holding candy made in accordance with the invention in a still-further modified form;

Fig. 14 is a view in cross-section taken along line |4-l4 of Fig. 13;

Fig. 15 is a perspective view of a complete package and container made in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 16 is a perspective View of one of the end corners which may be applied to the package seen in Fig. 15; and 7 Fig. 17 is a perspective view of a container holding two of the packages seen in Fig. 12.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings which disclose some examples of carrying out the invention, the numeral 20 (Fig. 1) indicates a hand in the act of placing a hand-dipped candy 2 la on the marking 22 of a transparent or translucent sheet 23, such as, Cellophane. The other candies 2i have already been arranged in spaced relation on sheet 23. The sheet 23 carrying the dipped candy is placed from table 24 onto an endless conveyor belt 25 trained over pulleys 26,

the belt 25 moving in the direction of the arrow (Fig. 2), carryin the dipped candy containing sheet 23 through a conventional cooler tunnel 21 having the air inlet and outlet pipes 28, 29, the

tunnel 21 being secured to a support 30. From conveyor belt 25, the sheet 23 passes onto a receiving table 3| on which the package may be formed.

Fig. 3 shows how the candies 2| are arranged on sheet 23 in spaced relation in each row, the rows being also separated by suitable spaces A, B, C. Margins 32, 33, are provided on opposite sides of the sheet 23 which are folded over the intermediate portion of the sheet 23 as seen in Figs. 4 and 5.

The candy containing sheet 23 is now convoluted, rolled or wound together, one part upon another commencing from one of the unfolded siades which is at a right angle to the fold lines 3 35.

Fig. 6 shows diagrammatically this sheet in the process of bein rolled to form the package, and Fig. 12 shows in crosssection, the completed package P. r

It is understood that after the candy has been placed on the sheet, the latter is left at at least one of its unfolded sides with sufficient margin to provide a complete overlapping and coverage at the end of the roll, thus completely sealing the 4 package. This margin is indicated in Fig. 12 by the numeral 36.

Referring to Fig. '7, the flexible base or sheet 23a may be provided with difi'erentjmarkings,

symbols, indicia in each row indicated by the numerals 40, 4|, 42, 43. Ihese markings, symbols,

indicia or other characters may serve a two-fold purpose, namely, to indicate to the factory employee what type,style or kind of candy is to be placed on the respective markings or characters, and to make easy for the consumer to identify the particular pieces of candy in the assortment.

For the latter purpose, the package may be im-, printed with, or carry a label on which is printed,

the style, type or kind of candy corresponding to the marking or character over which it is placed in the package. Although in Fig, '7, the characters are shown as being identical, it is evident that the same now may have different characters or symbols, and thus an assortment of candies. Furthermore, different colored markings may be used for different types of candies. The flexible base or sheet may be made sufficiently thick and yieldable so that the candy will make its own bed when the package is made up; or as seen in Figs. 8 and 9, depressions or recesses 44 may be embossed in the sheet 23b,the candies being seated in said depressions.

According to Figs. 10 and 11, the wrapper may have an outer flexible sheet or layer 50, for example, of Cellophane or other moisture-resistant material, and an inner layer of paper or thin cardboard 5l having the depressions 52 for receiving the bottoms of the candies and the parallel score lines 53; and according to Fig. 1101., the transparent moisture-resistant sheet 54 may be provided with ridges 55 formed out of the material.

According to Figs. 13 and 14, the outer or bottom layer of the package is made of conventional paper 60 and the inner or upper layer is made of thick Cellophane or similar material 5 l' wherein the beds 62 for the candies are formed. Either one or both of the layers may be imprinted adjacent the recesses 62 with the names or types of the .candies to be received in the depressions 62.

The rolled package P shown in Fig, 12 may be encased in a tubular container 64 as shown in Fig. 15, and the ends of this container may be closed by covers 55 seen in Fig. 16, Tube 64 may be made of metal, wood, paper, corrugated board, fiber board, plastic, or any other desired material and the package P may be vacuumed packed to keep the candies or other edibles in the package fresh.

Fig. 17 shows two packages P enclosed ina box 65 having a cover 61,

Suitable wording and legends may be printed on the package P, tube 64, or box 66.

From the foregoing it is evident that there is provided by this invention a novel, economical, practical, neat and aesthetic package in which the edible articles therein contained are protected against abrasion and the weather elements, and by which only the row containing the articles to be immediately consumed is exposed.

It will also be clear from the foregoing description that the pieces of confection will not adhere to the marginal sheet portions 32, 33 overclaimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A confection pack-age comprising a spirally wound roll, said roll comprising an outer layer and an inner layer of flexible material, said inner layer having a plurality of spaced rows of recesses, said rows of recesses being spirally disposed in said roll, and confection pieces seated respectively in said recesses, an unrecessed portion of said inner layer overlying each of said 10 confection pieces.

2. A confection package according to claim 1 wherein said inner and outer layers consist of Cellophane and paper, respectively.

3. A confection package according to claim 1 wherein said inner and outer layers consist of paper and Cellophane, respectively.

JACK BURSTINER.

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